Activating, Saving and Checking
Profiles
Once you have finished maintaining a profile, you can check it for errors or inconsistencies, save it in the database, and then activate it.
The CCMS profile maintenance tool stores the profiles as operating system files and stores a copy of each profile in the database. The database copy is used to create the profiles at database level. This process is known as activating a profile.

The profile maintenance tool ensures that changes to profiles are activated when the corresponding SAP instance is restarted. You cannot make changes to an SAP instance during active operation.
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1. On the initial screen in transaction RZ10, enter the name of the profile that you want to activate. Use input help possible to display the available profiles.
2. Choose Profile → Activate.
3.
Stop the SAP
instance(s) in which you want the profile changes to take effect, and restart
them. You can use the CCMS
control panel to
do this.

The system automatically creates a backup file with the extension .bak for active profiles that already exist in the SAP system. You can copy and display this backup file yourself, even if the R/3 System is not running.
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1. Call the CCMS profile maintenance tool by choosing Administration → CCMS → Configuration → Profile Maintenance.
2. Enter a profile name in the Profile field and choose Profile → Save.
Specify the name and version of the profile on the initial screen in transaction RZ10. Then choose Profile → Check.
On the initial screen in transaction RZ10, choose Utilities → Check all profiles → Of active servers.
On the initial screen in transaction RZ10, choose Utilities → Check all profiles → In operation modes.